IMAGES: Alabama woman of 50 pound weight gain turns out to be a massive ovarian cyst

29 June 2018

2 min read

Doctors with Jackson Hospital removed the cyst on May 26.

(Jackson Hospital )

For months, Kayla Rahn of Montgomery, Alabama had unexplained abdominal pain and was not able to lose weight. The situation was taking a toll on her life and well-being.

“I couldn’t even walk to my car without losing my breath,” Rahn recalled to NBC12, adding that she was once asked if she was pregnant with twins.

In May, Rahn finally the answer to her mysterious medical condition. After her mother took her to the emergency department of Jackson Hospital, doctors at the height of the 30-year-old that she is a huge cyst located on one of her ovaries.

“I remember that my mother and busting out crying that they were going to solve the problem,” said Rahn in a press release sent to Fox News via e-mail.

THE WOMAN HAS 132 POUND OVARIAN CYST REMOVED

Rahn said she is happy to have the cyst removed.

(Jackson Hospital )

Doctors removed the growth on 26 May, a day after the cyst — which had gone undetected for months — was discovered.

“This is one of the largest I have ever seen or in any case removed,” Dr. Gregory Jones, one of Rahn’s surgeons, said in a statement.

The growth weighed 50 pounds, according to the hospital.

Rahn told Fox News Thursday that they never expected that a cyst at the root of her medical problems.

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